Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,164,144 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,595,085). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc does
Mission
Plimoth patuxet's mission is to provide compelling, educational experiences built on thorough research about wampanoag people and the colonial english community in the 1600s. A smithsonian affiliate, the museum seeks to re-create the people, artifacts and landscape of 17th-century plymouth through its major living history exhibits, mayflower ii, the wampanoag homesite, 17th-century english village, craft center and plimoth grist mill.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Plimoth patuxet is one of america's most historically and culturally significant museums. Exhibits include the wampanoag homesite, 17th-century english village, craft center, nye barn, plimoth grist mill, and mayflower ii. Additional facilities on the 130-acre campus contribute to the overall guest experience as well as their enjoyment and comfort. Plimoth patuxet owns and maintains the mayflower ii, a 69-year old, full scale reproduction of the vessel that brought the pilgrims to plymouth. The museum has a rich collection of original artifacts that show daily life between 1500 and 1700. The artifacts come from places such as new england, great britain, and the netherlands, and represent the material culture that the pilgrims and wampanoag would have known. Museum researchers and artisans use the artifacts to help re-create the living history exhibits guests see at plimoth patuxet. The museum's educational programs help students explore and understand america's founding story. A visit to plimoth patuxet provides access to historic places and events that are vividly brought to life in an evocative environment. In addition, plimoth patuxet living history educators bring the story of…
$8,392,739 spent$4,832,301 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,392,739.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $40M (+2%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2021 33% · 2022 2% · 2023 14% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Stephen Brodeur
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $158k → $739k.
12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 38% · 2019 51% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $1.5M federal, $767k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$786k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$724k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$766k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$200
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mayflower Sails 2020 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC?
- PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,164,144 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,595,085). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $22,164,144 in grants to PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,595,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing